# geopy/geopy

Geocoding library for Python.

Repository: https://github.com/geopy/geopy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/geopy
Homepage: https://geopy.readthedocs.io/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, geocoding, geocoder
Last push: 2026-07-12T19:49:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 82/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 60, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6026, "days_push": 52, "days_rel": 52, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4856, forks 663 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:01.461908+00:00)

## What it is
geopy is a Python client library for popular geocoding web services like OpenStreetMap Nominatim and Google Geocoding API. It lets developers convert addresses to coordinates, reverse-geocode coordinates to addresses, and calculate geodesic distances between points.

## Use cases
- convert addresses to latitude and longitude in python
- reverse geocode coordinates to street addresses
- calculate distance between two geographic points
- geocode a list of cities or landmarks
- integrate nominatim or google geocoding into a python app
- look up coordinates of an address for a map feature

## When to choose
- you need a unified python interface to multiple geocoding services
- you want forward and reverse geocoding with geodesic distance math
- you need a mature, MIT-licensed library with broad service support

## When to avoid
- you need offline geocoding without third-party web services
- you need routing, directions, or turn-by-turn navigation
- you are building in a non-python stack

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: geospatial, http-client
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: geocoding, geocoder, gis, reverse-geocoding, distance-calculation, nominatim, maps, geospatial

## Member repositories
- geopy/geopy (main) score 82

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.461908+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:18:23.561690+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/geopy/geopy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.461908+00:00, sha 14c05cc7a095)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/geopy/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:01:29.641541+00:00, sha 1d483ef4f415)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.